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Strive to Achieve Your Physical Potential

Whether you are elite athlete on the field or court or a champion in the field of life, you should always have the burning desire to achieve your physical potential. By ensuring that your body is fine tuned and firing on all cylinders will allow you to perform at your highest level possible. To achieve your physical potential you must have a clear understanding of the essential components which influence your body. These essential components are your personal habits in your mind set, physical training, nutrition and recovery. By continuously evaluating and setting new goals in each of these areas, you will ensure that you are on the optimal path to achieving your physical potential. What is your physical potential? For everyone the answer will be different. It doesn't matter if you are a professional athlete or a business professional; we all have tremendous physical potential to achieve great things. When physically prepared, the human body has virtually endless capabilities to what can be physically achieved. Individuals that are committed to physical achievement have completed a spectrum of feats, such as running up to speeds of 25 mph, jumping over 40", lifting over a thousand pounds, running over 100 miles straight, holding breath for over 10 minutes, and swimming endless lengths at a time, to name a few. Be open minded to the possibilities of your body and physical potential. You don't have to set or break a world record in order to achieve your physical potential. Just continually strive to be the best physically you can be every day of your life.  

Mind Set One of the most important factors in the quest of achieving your physical potential is a proper mind set. I begin with this component, because I believe 99% of physical achievement occurs from the abilities of the mind. Unfortunately, we live in a society where being lazy and unhealthy is acceptable. On the television, the ever increasing drug commercials try to convince us to just pop a pill instead of taking care of our bodies. We are constantly being bombarded by negativity from the news media and pessimistic people that almost seem to like being miserable! Always be very cautious of what you allow into your mind. Limit your exposure to negative stimulus such as negative people, negative news coverage, or any other source of negativity that will inherently bring you down. By limiting your exposure to negativity, you will prevent your mind from being filled with useless clutter allowing you to focus more on the positive aspects of your physical achievement.

Over the years, I have been heavily influenced by my father, and other great motivational and goal setting gurus such as Zig Ziglar, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, and Brian Tracy to name a few. From all of these great men I have learned valuable strategies and methods that are directly applicable to achieving your physical potential. The reoccurring theme presented by all of these gentlemen, is what ever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. This powerful statement can be applied to help you strive to achieve your physical potential.

According to Dr. Hill the starting point for all achievement is the Definiteness of Purpose which is developing a burning desire to achieve your goal. With a solid game plan and the burning desire, there is literally nothing that can get in your way of achieving your physical goals. Your goal should be to reach the top 3-5% of the population in physical fitness, which I call the upper echelon of society and physical achievers. I characterize this top 3-5% as the elite minority, who choose to treat their body as a temple and understand the importance of proper mind set, physical training, nutrition and recovery. This top 3-5% does not make excuses; they take action every single day to ensure that they are always moving towards achieving their ultimate physical potential.

Where are you now? The first step in the quest to reaching your ultimate physical potential is to understand where you are presently. Without this knowledge in hand, you will not have a clear vision and understanding of the direction you need to take. By taking a critical look at yourself and your habits, you will be able to determine the areas of your lifestyle that require an improvement. Carefully evaluate each area which impacts your physical potential and determine where change is needed.

Six Ways to Turn Desire Into Physical Achievement From the writings of Dr. Hill, his philosophies can be applied to convert the burning desire you possess into its physical equivalent by using what I call the Six Ways To Turn Desire Into Physical Achievementwith six definite practical steps to determine you physical goals: 1.    Determine in your mind what areas you want to improve. Perhaps you need to reduce your bodyfat 5%, or increase your strength, flexibility or speed. Be as detailed as possible about the specific areas you need to improve upon. 2.    Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the physical achievement and attainment of the goal in regards to efforts in physical training, nutrition or recovery methods. 3.    Establish a definite date when you intend to obtain the physical achievement goals, no matter if it is in 4, 8, 12 weeks or 1 year. 4.    Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan in to action. 5.    From the previous steps, now write down your specific goals, the goal date and what you intend to give to achieve these goals, and include the plan you will use. 6.    Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once in the morning and once before going to bed. As you read the statements- visualize yourself like you have already achieved your physical goals...leaner, stronger, faster, or etc.

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"Losing 3kg in weight would mean I'd drop a dress size and fit into some of the clothes I've not been able to wear in a while. I'd feel more confident about myself and my ability to control my eating. When I lose that first 3kg it will give me the incentive to carry on and get down to my ideal weight. If I do that, I can throw away all the clothes that will be too big for me and re-stock my wardrobe with fashionable, attractive clothes. I'll feel more confident about being naked and less inhibited in bed, so my sex life will improve. Long term, I know I'll be healthier and have more energy to play sport and be more active with my kids."

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Write down everything that's needed to make achieving this goal happen. "Eat less" is not acceptable - because it's not nearly specific enough!

Do you need to join a slimming club, overhaul your larder and your fridge and throw out all the junk food? Do you need to buy a new recipe book? Do you need to shop for more healthy food? Do you need to enlist the help of a support buddy? Do you need to menu plan for the week? You've set your destination in question 1. This question is about telling your brain how you're going to get there.

When students say their goal is to pass the class

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A goal of "losing weight" or "get fitter" is not a SMART goal. You need to write down exactly what you intend to achieve i.e. I intend to lose 3kg in weight within the next 4 weeks. Do you believe that it is possible for you to achieve this goal? If not, do you need to change any of the parameters you've defined? For instance if you'd written I intend to lose 8kg weight within the next 4 weeks, that's not really realistic. If you don't believe you can achieve the goal, then I can pretty much guarantee that you won't.

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Don't just set goals on New Years Day. Why not make the first day of each month a day to review your goals? You could review how you got on with the goals you set for the previous month and decide if you need to fine tune your goals or the action needed to achieve them.

When you set goals you activate a part of your brain called the Reticular Activating System (RAS). It acts a bit like radar in that it will start to pick up on opportunities that will assist you in achieving your goal. Visualising your end result will help to activate your RAS and keep you moving toward your goals.

Jeremy: .. This is a really bad time to mention I’m afraid of heights

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Goals can really get you juiced, give you an incentive to take action and make positive changes in your life. Goals can be short, medium and long term. Indeed we should have goals for the next week, month and year. In fact, in Japan most companies set goals for 100 years or more! The more precise your goals are the better. Our brains work best with clear, concise instructions. I'd suggest that you set goals for different areas of your life, health, finances, relationships, etc....

Some requested achievements! We’re at 51, now!

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Goal setting is really important. It's like giving yourself a destination and a road map to get you there. If you don't have goals, something you want to achieve, then you'll just end up drifting day to day and before you know it life has passed you by.